Apr 24, 2007

medicine/drug

軟膏:ointment
錠剤:tablet/pill
顆粒:powdered medicine
カプセル:capsule
液剤 :liquid medicine
目薬 :eye drops
風邪薬:cold medicine
胃腸薬:stomach medicine
頭痛薬:headache medicine
座薬 :suppository
包帯 :bandage
内服薬:medicine for internal use
外用薬:medicine for external use
漢方薬:Chinese medicine
抗生物質:antibiotic
処方箋:prescription
副作用:side effect
服用法:directions
服(薬を飲む回数を表す語):dose

最後に、薬にまつわる英語のことわざを2つ。
Laughter is the best medicine.(笑いが最良の薬)
Time is the best medicine. (時は最良の薬(時が解決してくれる))

Madeleines



After I left the office, I went to buy this stainless plate of shells for baking madeleines today.

Before I had bought a electric blender and rubber spatula for cooking, but I haven't used yet.

So... I should bake madleines by using these tools in the nearly future.^-^/

Apr 23, 2007

Tokyo banana series



Last weekend, my brother came back to our home from Tokyo and

gave this wet Baumkuhen to us as a souvenir.

It's a series of 'Tokyo banana'.

Tokyo banana is a really popular souvenir of Tokyo and

they've been producing new sweets of banana every year.

We can't take our eyes off them.

This Baumkuhen has three layers of colours, yellow, light brown and dark brown

and each of parts have different tastes.

Yellow is plane, light brown is banana,

and dark brown is chocolate!!

It was really tasty☆彡

Apr 17, 2007

mix and match(着回す)


着こなす:dress well/stylish

マストアイテム:must/musthave

ブランドもの:designer goods

流行の:in style/fashion

流行遅れの:out of style/fashion

古着の:second-hand

衝動買い:impulse purchase

Apr 15, 2007

To our surprise,

Yesterday's afternoon, I attended the cooking class in Kanayama and
I met two ex-corworkers by totally accident!

I go to the school for more than a year but
it was a trial lessen for them.

Actually I met one of them in the underground shoppoing area in Nagoya station about a month ago also by chance,
but I met her and the other co-worker today.
It's a very surprising thing.

We worked at the same company before but none of us continue working there and
we didn't meet again after we quit that job.
Yesterday, we met again after 3 years.

We'll have the chances to meet at the same cooking school
if they decide to go there.

As for cooking, I baked cheese cake with orange flavor and
they baked some breads with salted cod roe spiced with red pepper.

Business trips to Tobisima village


I took this picture in front of our head office in Tobisima.
I have to say for the people they don't know about me well
that I work at a branch office in Nagoya city.
Tobisima is a small village near Nagoya port and these days I have to go there to receive the bisiness trainnings.
Last week, I went there twice. At the first day, I took some lessons in a meeting room but the second day, I spent almost a day in a trailer with a woman driver.
She is very nice person and she acted very kindly to me.
She explained about her job and she also talked with me a lot besides topics about the business.
So we could spend very fruitful time.
When the time we had to say good buy, we felt so sad that we didn't say the things like
'take care of your health, du your best and good bye.'
Just we said,
'See you next time, thank you so much!'

Apr 7, 2007

A Green Park


I went to the Green park close to my house and saw beautiful flowers in the greenhouse.